Transforming Trauma into Medicine through Sacred Relationship with Self, Spirit and Mother Earth
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Trauma as Medicine Retreat
November 21, 2024 @ 5:00 pm - November 24, 2024 @ 12:00 pm UTC-7
Imagine this: You are standing on top of a mountain, with your feet firmly planted on the ground and your arms stretched up toward the sky. You feel completely connected to Earth, Water, Air, Fire, and Spirit. Every part of your body is in harmony with the land around you. You know that you are here for a reason, your life is filled with purpose, and all your experiences have meaning. You are actively shaping your own life and embodying your essence.
This is the intention of Trauma as Medicine.
During this retreat, you will engage in land-based teachings, circles, shamanic journeys, movement, meditation, and three plant medicine ceremonies. These activities aim to help you trust in your inherent resources for self-healing. Through hands-on practices that emphasize personal embodiment and self-inquiry, you will receive support in connecting with your sacred self. Please note that actual mountains may not be included.
Time Frame: November 21 – 24
Registration & Costs: Early bird price $1111 must be paid by November 1st (with gst $1167) Regular price $1488 paid by Nov 15th (with gst $1562)
This includes the cost of the retreat and your room which is twin shared. Payments may be made via e-transfer to sarahsalterkelly@gmail.com or pay pal.
How to register? Book an intake session if you are new to working with me at this link (this is a separate cost of $120 which is paid through the link) and Fill out this registration form. Once your spot is confirmed, proceed with total payment via e-transfer or pay pal.
Food will be a community creation where each person will be assigned one dish to contribute.
The environment: Located on private land at Cooking lake Alberta in a 6 bdrm house, with 4 bathrooms.
Plant Medicines – Psilocybin & Huachuma
Psilocybin tea is shared in the Rainbow Serpent Lodge which was passed to Sarah through a vision she has back in 2007 through Thoth, the Egyptian God of wisdom. Participants are supported with channeled medicine songs and music, hands-on healing, tobacco cleanse, and other shamanic practices to guide their journey. This is excellent medicine for delving into the deeper aspects of our life’s journeys so we can integrate them with the light.
The intention of this lodge is to create a portal for the following:
– Communing with Source.
– Regulating the nervous system.
– Illuminating one’s true nature.
– Releasing old patterns.
– Addressing grief & trauma.
– Coming home to oneself & one’s body.
– Investigating internal contracted energy.
– Entering loving awareness – as referred to by Ram Dass.
– Experiencing presence.
Huachuma (San Pedro) is a psychedelic cactus that grows in the high Andes of Peru. It specializes in opening our hearts to love and helping us to bring this into the world. Our health and vitality are linked to our relationship with ourselves, Mother Earth and Spirit, which is often out of balance. Huachuma helps us to re-establish these relationships and investigate what is needed for harmony. It is a daytime ceremony which will hold moments of inner reflection as well as times for group engagement. You are encouraged to trust in yourself, the medicine, and the process. The ceremony is twelve hours long on Saturday.
Hape: Hape is a tobacco snuff from the Amazon used to clear heavy energy, open the third eye, and ground.
Other processes:
– Self-inquiry: The practice of investigating who we are to raise our awareness, increase our understanding, and release old patterning. In our retreat, it is combined with shamanic journey & journal writing.
– Despacho: The art of gifting and giving thanks for all that we have through creating a sacred mandala we offer to Mother Earth.
– Fire Ceremony: Working with the Spirit of Fire, you will learn a practice passed down through the Inca Medicine Wheel tradition for cleansing your being and asking for help.
– Ecstatic Dance: Free-flow improvisational movement allows the body to move to the rhythm within and without for release, empowerment, and healing.
– Shamanic Journey: The art of communing with Spirit through your own personal direct revelation – this practice enhances your intuition, increases psychic awareness, and instigates clarity in your healing experience.
– Integration Circle: Sarah has had the joy of facilitating circles for over 20 years. The practice of bringing your visions into our circle is an integral part of awakening. This is where you learn to be seen, to listen to the collective teachings in the group, and to use your voice – be heard – as you share your heart.
– Qi-gong: A meditative practice incorporating breathing techniques, movement, sound, and self-massage. Its origins lie in traditional Chinese medicine and philosophy.
Sarah Salter Kelly is a Spiritual Teacher with a rich education in energy healing and hands-on practice. Her training is sourced in lived experiences – particularly healing from the homicide of her mother and learning to forgive the perpetrator – as well as thirty years of studying energy medicine, shamanism, restorative justice, and personal growth. She shares an integrated path to lay the foundation for personal transformation and empowerment.
Since 2007, Sarah has run a private clinical practice, created a healing centre, hosted monthly moon gatherings, developed and implemented shamanic training programs, spoken at many conferences, led retreats, and brought groups to Peru to work with indigenous healers. Her primary focus is curating experiences with plant medicine for the healing of the body, mind, and spirit. Most recently, she is the author of her first self-published book – “Trauma as Medicine.”
For those interested in reading her book prior to attending – it is available here: Trauma as Medicine | Sarah Salter Kelly
“This book provides not only a story of tremendous healing but gifts the reader a thorough roadmap to navigate our own healing and ultimately contribute to the collective wellbeing of our planet. Sarah provides many pertinent reflections on our collective relationship to the First peoples of this land and the role required of each of us.” Teresa Callihoo, MBA, Wetaskiwin AB
“Sarah Salter Kelly took the agonizing pain of personal catastrophe and turned it into soul medicine for herself and others. What seared her soul, then opened her soul. And an amazing light came in.”
— Marianne Williamson, Spiritual teacher and international best selling author
Testimonials:
Working with Sarah and Trauma as Medicine has been a tremendous gift on my journey of healing my deep and long-standing abandonment wounds. Sarah’s ability to help empower me to heal myself, without reliance on anything or anyone outside of my own inner medicine and truth has been a remarkable gift. Kate Hook – Onoway Alberta
Traumatized is the best word to describe myself when I started working with Sarah. I attended her Trauma as medicine retreat, did private sessions, went to healing circles and many keynote speaker events. Every one of these teachings was medicine for my soul and body. I learned to love myself and awakened my Spirit from the resentment of spousal beatings and residential school trauma. Sarah is a gifted Healer, and she has opened my life to see my own amazing journey unfold for the better. I talk to everyone about her teachings. Dianna C – Edmonton Alberta
I have gleaned such a profound understanding of the importance of all of us being able to share our stories of trauma in order to help heal each other as a collective. To be able to do it in a safe environment where we know there will be no judgment, just the pure desire to help support each other wherever we are in this process. Jae Wright – Vernon BC
Basic Itinerary
Day 1 – Nov 21st
4-6:00pm Arrive & get settled
6:30 – 12:30 pm Opening Circle and Rainbow Serpent Lodge Ceremony
Day 2 – Nov 22d
7:00 – 8:00am Qi-gong
8 :00-9:30 am Breakfast
9:30 – 12:30pm Workshop – Integration Circle & Energy Body practice
12:30 – 1:30pm Lunch
1:30 – 3:00pm Reflection time
3:00 – 5:00pm Workshop teachings
5:00 – Supper
Day 3 – Nov 23
7:00 – 8:00 Qi-gong
9:00 – 6:00 pm Huachuma Ceremony
6:00 Supper
Day 4 – Nov 24th
7:00 – 8:00 Qi-gong
8:00 – 9:30am Breakfast
9:30 – 12:00 Integration circle & closing ceremony.
12:00 Lunch
Sarah has been interviewed on many podcasts:
With Marianne Williamson
Waking up Human with Mandy Trapp
Beyond the veil with Tara Kabatoff
Microdosing for Healing with Kayse Garett
I have my reasons with Deandra Dey
I Have My Reasons Podcast | Deandra Dey